Baptism

FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND RECEPTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."

FORGIVENESS OF SINS THROUGH BAPTISM

And now why do you delay? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name

FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND RECEPTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanlinesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY

For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and we were all made to drink of one Spirit

BAPTISM INTO ONE BODY

As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ...for all of you are one in Christ Jesus

BAPTISM IS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION

...who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you-- not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

BAPTISM NECESSARY FOR SALVATION

Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit

BAPTISM W/ THE SPIRIT WAS INSTITUTED BY CHRIST

And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.